NAME
Message::Passing::ZeroMQ - input and output messages to ZeroMQ.
SYNOPSIS
# Terminal 1:
$ message-passing --input STDIN --output ZeroMQ --output_options '{"connect":"tcp://127.0.0.1:5558"}'
{"data":{"some":"data"},"@metadata":"value"}
# Terminal 2:
$ message-passing --output STDOUT --input ZeroMQ --input_options '{"socket_bind":"tcp://*:5558"}'
{"data":{"some":"data"},"@metadata":"value"}
DESCRIPTION
A ZeroMQ transport for Message::Passing.
Designed for use as a log transport and aggregation mechanism for perl
applications, allowing you to aggregate structured and non-structured
log messages across the network in a non-blocking manor.
Clients (I.e. users of the Message::Passing::Output::ZeroMQ class)
connect to a server (I.e. a user of the Message::Passing::Input::ZeroMQ
class) via ZeroMQ's pub/sub sockets. These are setup to be lossy and
non-blocking, meaning that if the log-receiver process is down or slow,
then the application will queue a small (and configurable) amount of
logs on it's side, and after that log messages will be dropped.
Whilst throwing away log messages isn't a good thing to do, or something
that you want to happen regularly, in many (especially web application)
contexts, network logging being a single point of failure is not
acceptable from a reliability and graceful degradation standpoint.
The application grinding to a halt as a non-essential centralised
resource is unavailable (e.g. the log aggregation server) is
significantly less acceptable than the loss of non-essential logging
data.
HOW TO USE
In your application emitting messages, you can either use
Message::Passing::Output::ZeroMQ directly, of you can use it via
Log::Dispatch::Message::Passing.
# FIXME - Example code, including overriding IP to connect to here
On your log aggregation server, just run the message-passing utility:
message-passing --input ZeroMQ --input_options '{"socket_bind":"tcp://*:5222"}' \
--output File --output_options '{"filename":"/tmp/my_test.log"}'
CONNECTION DIRECTION
Note that in ZeroMQ, the connection direction and the direction of
message flow can be entirely opposite. I.e. a client can connect to a
server and send messages to it, or receive messages from it (depending
on the direction of the socket types).
SOCKET TYPES
ZeroMQ supports multiple socket types, the only ones used in
Message::Passing::ZeroMQ are:
PUB/SUB
Used for general message distribution - you can have either multiple
producers (PUB) which connect to one consumer (SUB), or multiple
consumers (SUB) which connect to one producer (PUB).
All consumers will get a copy of every message.
In Message::Passing terms, Message::Passing::Input::ZeroMQ is for SUB
sockets, and Message::Passing::Output::ZeroMQ is for PUB sockets.
PUSH/PULL
Used for message distribution. A sever (PUSH) distributes messages
between a number of connecting clients (PULL)
In Message::Passing terms, Message::Passing::Input::ZeroMQ is for PULL
sockets, and Message::Passing::Output::ZeroMQ is for PUSH sockets.
MORE COMPLEX EXAMPLES
With this in mind, we can easily create a system which aggregates
messages from multiple publishers, and passes them out (in a round-robin
fashion) to a pool of workers.
# The message distributor:
message-passing --input ZeroMQ --input_options '{"socket_bind":"tcp://*:5222"}' \
--output ZeroMQ --output_options '{"socket_bind":"tcp://*:5223","socket_type":"PUSH"}'
# Workers
{
package MyApp::MessageWorker;
use Moo;
with 'Message::Passing::Role::Filter';
sub filter {
my ($self, $message) = @_;
# .... process the message in any way you want here
return undef; # Do not output the message..
}
}
message-passing --input ZeroMQ --input_options '{"connect":"tcp://127.0.0.1:5223","socket_type":"PULL"}'
--filter '+MyApp::MessageWorker'
--output STDOUT
You log messages into the distributor as per the above simple example,
and you can run multiple worker processes..
Less trivial setups could/would emit messages on error, or maybe re-emit
the incoming message after transforming it in some way.
SEE ALSO
For more detailed information about ZeroMQ and how it works, please
consult the ZeroMQ guide and the other links below:
Message::Passing::Output::ZeroMQ
Message::Passing::Input::ZeroMQ
Message::Passing
ZeroMQ
AUTHOR
Tomas (t0m) Doran
SPONSORSHIP
This module exists due to the wonderful people at Suretec Systems Ltd.
who sponsored its development for its
VoIP division called SureVoIP for use with
the SureVoIP API -
COPYRIGHT
Copyright Suretec Systems 2012.
LICENSE
GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3
If you feel this is too restrictive to be able to use this software,
please talk to us as we'd be willing to consider re-licensing under less
restrictive terms.